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July 3, 2017

Credit scores: Why is your friend's better than yours?

By CLAIRE TSOSIE
NerdWallet

Tia Chambers checked her credit score for the first time at age 23, after watching a friend check his, she says.

“I said, ‘Oh boy, my credit score has to be better than that,'” says Chambers, now 31, who blogged about her experience on her website, Financially Fit and Fabulous. To her surprise, it was worse. “My credit score was a lot lower than I expected. It was actually in the mid- to high 500s.”


 
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